Asked whether she considered quitting, Birx replied: “Always. I mean, why would you want to put yourself through that every day?”
Deborah Birx said in a new interview that she “always considered” resigning from the White House coronavirus task force while President Trump was in office.
Birx, who had previously served in public health roles in the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that colleagues frequently assumed she was co-signing a political agenda with her role as White House coronavirus response coordinator.
Watch clips from the interview below:
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